As a part of our TOS we stipulate that authors must provide proper authorship information in the form of a real name and current contact information.

We realize the need for some authors to remain anonymous and have not yet enforced this requirement. However, part of building trust with our readers is to assume and demonstrate responsibility for our writings.

We therefore request that any author who has achieved a "trusted" status (after 5 approved quality articles) must provide an avatar, a name and some kind of information in the bio. If you are not comfortable providing your real name then a pen name and symbolic avatar is acceptable.

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I've been writing on HubPages, and have just joined Wizzley. What makes me nervous about giving my real name, which more and more sites are asking me to do, is that my name is all that's needed to find out all kinds of info about me - including my address and email. Shouldn't caution be a part of this?